Ask Lemmy

I've been using the stress of needing to do things to keep me going. Without it I can't even imagine what I'd do.

I wish I could be a perpetual student attending college. And open a business that im passionate about.

Write sci fi novels and take care of stray cats

Peter Gibbons: I would relax... I would sit on my ass all day... I would do nothing.

Lawrence: Well, you don't need a million dollars to do nothing, man.

Continue to work and fuck over poor people is very popular.

I would find work where I enjoy myself, and get a hobby of travelling the world and documenting cultures

Make stuffed animals and donate them to hospitals, fire stations, and police stations

Organize town-wide scavenger hunts

Learn to cook good food and give it away to people who want some

Start a group that would teach people how to use a sewing machine.

Organize a bearded dragon rescue.

Trim people's hedges

Make videos to share all my knowledge with people for free

I'd make a few kids with my wife, make my private pilot license and travel the world with my family by plane (as the pilot, of course). In the meantime I build aviation related open source software.

Game (and probably stream myself doing so) a lot, get more exercise, volunteer a bit, probably contribute to open source projects a lot more

Exercise, drink wine, read more, and take tons of road trips.

Travel, learn culture science theologie languages and so much more, teach

Go around pantsing people all day. Go so hard that it starts to feel like work. Then pants myself and end it all.

I'm there. I'm hanging out with friends, spending time in nature, I have a few hobbies, and the rest of the time I'm summoning the wrath of the gods and goddesses to smite the corrupt powers of the world.

So, I'm pretty content.

Indie game development. Except more full time instead of just on weekends like I do now.

The same life but without the pressure of a job.

Make music, perform music, make games, make movies, write small books and maybe draw pictures.

And then I would try out being a research attorney, being an EMT, a pilot, maybe working with NASA at some point and working for some government agency specializing in digital warfare.

People always assume if you had everything you would just sit at home and be lazy and never try anything. But from my experience you don't do that shit just because you're complacent, you do it because either you are way too stressed out to try out new stuff or you are in the middle of a depressive episode. Almost all people I know wouldn't be able to be lazy for more than 2 weeks, they would start making something.

Find a deserted corner in the Pacific Northwest temperate rainforest, likely up near Haida Gawaii, and just… vanish.

I like civilization in general for the benefits it brings. I even like a few people. But humanity in general…

I truly enjoy solitude.

Write only free code. Right now, probably 80% of my code is free. I’d bump that up to 100%.

Spend as much time as I could in nature or playing video games. Or playing video games while in nature. Lots of camping.

I teach philosophy for a living these days.

I’d probably keep doing that, but less of it.

I’d also do a lot of writing.

Knowing me, do what I normally do in my free time, but hopefully actually get projects done.

I'd have plenty of time to play games, watch my shows, listen to CDs/music, hopefully finish a project I started on Wattpad or another program, and spend time learning coding to help with my NeoCities site and some other projects I wanna work on but don't know enough to make become a realiety.

Probably continue to work in transpiration with special needs school kids. My job isn't so much about money to me at this point I'm deeply emotionally invested.

Fish

Do so much more with horses Video games Art

Streamer but in like a chill way, no subs

A podcast about the pre-columbian Americas which in all honesty would be a Hardcore History knockoff.

Write, write until I drop dead, with a smile in my face.

I'd throw parties probably, but only if poverty were eliminated for everyone.

Beat on red hot metal with a hammer, and fly hot air balloons.

So all that would change is that my basic needs would actually be met.